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as part of an escalating effort to avert the fiscal cliff. >> it was a very, very positive meeting. the president, like we are, are committed to preserving the tax breaks for the middle class and making sure that rich people pay their fair share. >> among the leaders at the meeting, the head of the aflcio and the national education association. later this week, the president will host business leaders from both parties. in the meantime, briefing at the white house, chuck todd asked if the scandal was distracting from efforts to deal with the fiscal cliff. >> i'm not going to make a judgment on that. i think the issues that confront us are important enough and consuming enough with regards to the so-called fiscal cliff and the budget that he expects that those who are engaged in conversations about it and negotiations about it will be as focused as he is. >> amid-all of that in the past half hour, the house and senate were gavelled back to order following a seven-week hiatus. kelly o'donnell joins us. i understand mitch mcconnell kind of putting some strong words out there on the flo
as part of an escalating effort to avert the fiscal cliff. >> it was a very, very positive meeting. the president, like we are, are committed to preserving the tax breaks for the middle class and making sure that rich people pay their fair share. >> among the leaders at the meeting, the head of the aflcio and the national education association. later this week, the president will host business leaders from both parties. in the meantime, briefing at the white house, chuck todd asked...
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as you can imagine, everyone wants president obama's ear on this issue. and today, the president's going to meet with labor leaders. cnn white house correspondent brianna keilar with a look at that. great to see you. a labor, of course, intent on making sure the president keeps his promise on those tax hikes for the wealthy. but what can we expect from this meeting today? we're talking about one hour with two dozen labor leaders. is there anything that can really be accomplished? >> reporter: i don't know anything really tangible is going to come out of this. this is a big kickoff for president obama, having meetings this week. today he's meeting with labor leaders, also liberal leaders. tomorrow, he's meeting with business leaders. obviously he needs to span the interest of these interests, i should say of these groups. as he tries to work out a deal with republicans and then he'll be meeting with the top democrat and the top republican in the house and the senate here at the white house on friday. so this is really him, we're told by white house officia
as you can imagine, everyone wants president obama's ear on this issue. and today, the president's going to meet with labor leaders. cnn white house correspondent brianna keilar with a look at that. great to see you. a labor, of course, intent on making sure the president keeps his promise on those tax hikes for the wealthy. but what can we expect from this meeting today? we're talking about one hour with two dozen labor leaders. is there anything that can really be accomplished? >>...
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now it's a more conciliatory tone with this fiscal cliff. and the grover pledge republicans say privately gets in the way of that. now a majority of the congress has not signed the pledge because of republican losses as well as we talk to some incoming republicans in the house and they haven't signed it. they don't want to be tied down. and these aren't centrists, incoming members, these are conservatives. grover says eventually some of these guys will sign it after they've served in congress, but it's part of the republican party kind of reassessing things. >> i'll ask you to overgeneralize, we had speaker gingrich who says things aren't so bad, we just need to recalibrate a little bit. as you talk to republicans, capitol hill, strategists and big thinkers, are there more people saying we need some tweaks or more people saying we need to rebuild from the ground up? >> i think it's more of a significant revamp. especially when you're talking about immigration reform. i mean, you talk about the dream act, scale back bill that was voted on in
now it's a more conciliatory tone with this fiscal cliff. and the grover pledge republicans say privately gets in the way of that. now a majority of the congress has not signed the pledge because of republican losses as well as we talk to some incoming republicans in the house and they haven't signed it. they don't want to be tied down. and these aren't centrists, incoming members, these are conservatives. grover says eventually some of these guys will sign it after they've served in congress,...